How to Create a Quick Sparkling Diamonds Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

Some fonts can make creating certain text effects much easier. This tutorial will show you how to use a dotted font, with a couple of layer styles, to achieve a simple, glittering diamonds text effect. Let's get started!

Tutorial Assets

The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial.

1. Creating the Background

Step 1

Create a new 1342 x 755 px document. Set the Foreground color to #161819 and the Background color to #010101, pick the Gradient Tool, click the Radial Gradient icon in the Options bar, and then click and drag from the center of the document to one of the corners, and duplicate the Background layer.

Step 2

Double click the Background copy layer to apply a Pattern Overlay effect using the following settings:

Blend Mode: Overlay

Pattern: DP1-E

This will style the background.

2. Creating the Text and Styling the First Layer

Step 1

Create the text using the font Fortuna Dot, the Size 200 pt, and the color #a7a59f.

Duplicate the text layer and change the copy's Fill value to 0.

Double click the original text layer to apply the following layer style:

Step 2

Add a Bevel and Emboss with these settings:

Size: 10

Gloss Contour: Ring

Check the Anti-aliased box

Highlight Mode: Vivid Light

Shadow Mode - Color: #a6a6a6

Step 3

Add a Contour with these settings:

Check the Anti-aliased box.

Range: 25%

Step 4

Add a Texture with these settings:

Pattern: Mesh Transparent BG

Step 5

Add a Pattern Overlay with these settings:

Pattern: Crystal Pattern

Scale: 10%

Step 6

Add a Drop Shadow with these settings:

Opacity: 50%

Distance: 10

Spread: 15

Size: 5

This will create the first layer of the effect.

3. Styling the Second Text Layer

Double click the copy text layer to apply the following layer style:

Step 1

Add a Bevel and Emboss with these settings:

Technique: Chisel Hard

Size: 6

Uncheck the Use Global Light box

Angle: 82

Altitude: 53

Gloss Contour: Ring

Check the Anti-aliased box

Highlight Mode: Linear Light

Shadow Mode - Opacity: 0%

Step 2

Add a Contour with these settings:

Check the Anti-aliased box.

Step 3

Add a Texture with these settings:

Pattern: Double lined

Depth: 500%

Step 4

Add an Inner Glow with these settings:

Noise: 49%

Color: #b3b694

Source: Center

Size: 16

Step 5

Add a Pattern Overlay with these settings:

Blend Mode: Soft Light

Opacity: 65%

Pattern: Nebula

This will style the second layer of the effect, adding some color using the Pattern Overlay effect, and more glossiness using the Bevel and Emboss settings.

4. Adding the Flares

Step 1

Set the Foreground color to #f4f1e3, pick the Brush Tool, and open the Brush panel (Window > Brush). Choose one of the Stars and Flares Brush Set brush tips, and modify its settings as shown below:

Brush Tip Shape

Shape Dynamics

Step 2

Create a new layer on top of all layers, call it Sparkles, and change its Blend Mode to Linear Light. Then start clicking to add some sparkling flares at the edges of the text.

Congratulations! You're Done

In this tutorial, we created a simple background, and two text layers. Then, we styled both text layers using different layer effects to achieve the crystal-like look. Finally, we added a couple of flares to make the text pop a bit more.